There was once a time when Americans meant "live free or die" but what has happened to that? I can't believe we know live in an America where we choose to limit our freedoms and privacy to prevent "terrorist attacks". Protecting our people obviously is imporant but the need for Bush's warrantless wire tapping, torturing at secret military prisons and limiting of our freedom of speech is non-existent. Also, the thought of cencering things because it might upset others makes me cringe. Everyone says they love freedom but when the time comes to defend it, we do nothing. The war in Iraq isn't protecting us, it is making Bush's pockets more fat. It's completing Bush's selfish and what I consider evil agenda. Yes, I consider Bush to be evil.
2007-10-10 15:52:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Very far from being a liberal. I'm probably the more conservative than anyone who has posted here.
2007-10-10 16:15:39 · update #1
It does seem to be a trend doesn't it? We want to "protect our freedoms" by limiting them. The gay marriage "debate" demonstrates this foolish approach. You don't "protect marriage" by denying it to people. It's just the fear based politics of today I'm afraid. The disappearance of the fourth amendment which is basically gone now is creepy. And for what? So someone nervous twit can feel a little better. Please, we stopped being the leader of the free world long ago.
2007-10-10 15:58:45 · answer #1 · answered by God 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, I ask the same question only I do not cite the Patriot Act as indicative of the problem. Instead we should ask ourselves, why are so many people sitting around just waiting to be offended by something someone says? When did we start embracing the idea that we are helpless children that need a Washing DC based nanny to care for our needs? When did we decide it was acceptable to have children out of wedlock? When did we confuse the terms "freedom" with "license"? When did we start confusing the terms "tolerance" with "acceptance"? When did we grant the Federal Government powers the Constitution specifically reserved to the states and the people themselves?
These are the sorts of questions real Americans should be lamenting about. Not wiretapping terrorists.
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2007-10-10 23:09:10 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you completely. While we supposedly fight to protect our Freedom.... and to bring Freedom to others. We are actually losing that which makes us America. This isnt anything new. Go ahead and read some speeches made by Presidents before the Vietnam War.... we were supposedly liberating them too. Do not pay any mind to the People on here who refuse to see reality.
2007-10-10 23:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
American has been skinned alive by the press....especially the criminals who yap to the public on TV. They show programs which we shouldn't see and these programs go around the world and show how stupid we are. The press should be stiffled.....1 st amendment of not.
2007-10-11 05:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be consoled my friend, America is too intelligent to let the movement started by Reagan, improved"?" by Bush senior and even Clinton, and nailed down by the dope we have in the "moron" house now to last too long. Freedom rings...Republicans just want more GOLD rings...they're gay, ask Larry Craig
2007-10-10 23:28:15 · answer #5 · answered by charlie the 2na 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
speak for yourself i've had my *** kicked by the cops many, many times defending our rights... maybe if you spent more time in the streets with people like me and encouraged others to do the same, you wouldn't feel so disempowered... in fact, maybe if you did all that we'd win.
2007-10-10 23:32:24 · answer #6 · answered by vegan_geek 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so by by
miss American pie
drove my Chevy to the levy
but the levy was dry
them good ol' boys
were drinking whiskey and rye
singing
this will be the day that i die
this will be the day that i die.
The American Dream
RIP
2007-10-10 23:07:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Will the brainless twaddle coming from the Left never cease? It's hard to take boobs who cry about "cencering" things very seriously.
Islam delenda est
2007-10-10 22:57:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The problem is this--http://www.white-history.com/USA3rdworldimmi.htm
Bush is only evil in the mind of a true loonatic.
2007-10-10 23:01:48 · answer #9 · answered by Jeremiah Johnson 7 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have become wimps that think they are entitled to everything because they have never lived through tough times.
2007-10-10 22:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by Chef 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋